Seattle's late, lamented best sushi restaurant
It's become a maxim of mine that if you find a product you really like, that is really the right thing, you should buy several because it will soon be discontinued or otherwise become unavailable. My Country Road Australia jeans are but one example. Not long after I obtained a suitably redundant quantity, the company withdrew from the U.S. market.
This hard-won life lesson is of no help with sushi. My favorite sushi restaurant, Sanmi Sushi, closed last month, reportedly with the retirement of Mr. Sanmi and his wife (the best possible reason). This was one of the true gems of the Seattle restaurant scene, appreciably better than the competition. The unassuming marina setting was perfect in any kind of weather--snug at this time of year.
Here I overcame the only major irrational food aversion of my adulthood, trying uni (sea urchin roe) at last. At the time I felt it was an empowering moment, and I dimly remember following up by doing a few other things I had been needlessly afraid to do (to no great peril or effect, of course). I also ate fried shrimp heads a number of times over the years, but those never worried me like uni. My other great memory is of my dear friend meeting me for dinner at Sanmi in an impromptu attempt (successful!) on her part to salvage my utterly uneventful birthday.
Not sure how to end this post, so let's go with the tried and true: All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
posted at 2:42 PM
1 Comments:
ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had no idea it closed! SOOOO devastated, as we loved it too -- definitely the best sushi in Seattle. So sad, so sad.
Nice "Blade Runner" reference...
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